Energy Central

OCTOBER 12, 2022

A detailed look at the social and environmental trade offs, politics and geo-strategy behind the Lithium Ion battery and EV revolution Episode 117: AUTHOR BOOK REVIEW: Volt Rush: Winners and losers in the race to green with Henry Sanderson.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 2, 2021

For every car on our roads to be zero emission by 2050, just under double the current total annual world cobalt production, 75% of the world’s lithium production and at least 50% of the world’s copper production would be required. However, the mining of cobalt is fraught with political issues. Lithium mining. Cobalt mining.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 8, 2023

2 Other considerations include balancing political priorities, such as creating local jobs and energy security, with feasibility challenges, for example, caused by stringent environmental and social standards, slow permitting, and difficulties in accessing finance.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

For the last three decades, the OEMs’ interest in EVs has flapped this way and that in the winds of quarterly earnings and political shifts. He began working with lithium-ion batteries in 1993 at Panasonic, then led Tesla’s battery development team for 11 years, playing a key role in the creation of Tesla’s first Gigafactory.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 14, 2021

The measure will be essential to safeguard these components against supply disruption, say the authors, who warn that access to the critical raw materials (CRMs) in these products is vulnerable to geo-political tides. Fluorescent powders from cathode ray tubes (CRTs; in TVs and monitors) and fluorescent lamps.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Oil major Total and carmaker Groupe PSA have taken the next step in their lithium-ion battery manufacturing collaboration with the launch of a new joint venture company and the first management appointments. Even before the COVID-19 outbreak, European automakers were focused on developing domestic sources of lithium-ion batteries.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Also of interest is new debt financing for 80 microgrids in India and a successful Series A for Silicon Anode Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries, aiming to bolster the market in Europe. ESG for utilities: decarbonisation on the up.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Salient Energy, seeking an alternative to lithium-ion batteries. Concerns over the lithium-ion battery supply chain did not disappear in 2020. For now, though, Maigue’s colorful creation has at least earnt him a James Dyson Award and mentions in media outlets ranging from Dezeen to Bored Panda. miles into the ground.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Recent years have seen energy storage installations dominated by lithium-ion battery technology around the world. Total project costs range between $106 and $200 per kilowatt-hour, compared to between $393 and $581 for lithium-ion batteries, World Bank figures show. This week, the International Hydropower Association and the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Tim Walz is asking lawmakers to take up a plan to reach zero-carbon electricity by 2050, although the proposal's future will likely depend on which political party controls the state legislature after November’s election. In Minnesota, Gov. EVs, green hydrogen and energy storage.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Andrew oversees Benchmark’s supply chain research and analysis, which stretches from downstream assessments of anode, cathode and battery production through to price assessments and forecasting for the key lithium ion battery raw materials, including lithium, cobalt, nickel and graphite. Dr. Leonardo Paoli.

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Charged

AUGUST 7, 2022

Unless our country makes an unexpected political about-face, we’re likely to continue falling farther and farther behind Europe (where BEVs account for over 10% of the market) and China (20%). On the supply side, shortages of semiconductors and soaring prices for lithium and other raw materials are holding back sales.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

These benefits will vary regionally as different states and municipalities develop their own programs to implement the federal dollars they receive from the law, explained Leah Stokes, associate professor of energy politics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 12, 2024

Lastly, the law creates a revolving loan fund in the state treasury to provide loans to political subdivisions of the state working on geothermal development projects based on the approval of the Secretary of Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources. The signing of HB 91 comes a year after a similar bill was pocket vetoed by the Governor.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 6, 2020

“We deal with land, we deal with resources, we deal with politics,” Isaac said in an interview. That will require tapping a set of up-and-coming technologies that promise to deliver many more hours of storage duration than the lithium-ion batteries on the market today.

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AutoGrid

OCTOBER 27, 2022

More recently, Total SE used the Flex platform to provide frequency regulation from its largest battery, a 25MW/25MWh lithium ion battery. Yet that number could grow by 300 percent if existing regulatory barriers are eliminated and political support, via a specific peak demand reduction target, is secured. Such aims are within reach.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 8, 2023

This may fall on deaf ears in the throes of a provincial election, but political leaders aren’t judged by their talking points of the day. Our lithium shouldn’t merely be exported, for example. Instead, they’re judged on where they succeeded, or failed, to prepare for a foreseeable future. And this one is very foreseeable.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The price of lithium-ion batteries, which power most mainstream EVs, has been dropping dramatically the past several years. Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) says that between 2010 and 2019, lithium-ion battery pack prices fell 87 percent. In 2019, they dropped 13 percent more.

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

And the political challenge of building public support for what is set to be the biggest and fastest industrial revolution in history. But political and corporate understanding of supply chain risks often remains patchy at best. The skills challenge of developing a workforce capable of installing and operating them.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

While meeting peak grid power demand in 2050 with CCS and hydrogen requires roughly £40bn in capital expenditure, it estimates that this would be significantly less than the estimated £170bn price tag from scaling alternative technologies to ensure firm and flexible power such as nuclear, pumped storage or lithium-ion batteries.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

“If you look across storage [technologies such as] lithium-ion and pumped hydro, there are few commercial projects with a duration of more than 12 hours,” he said. One approach included a massive build-out of wind, solar and storage, which was based on one of the politically favored paths forward.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

"Sharp spikes in electricity prices in recent times have been causing hardship for many households and businesses around the world and risk becoming a driver of social and political tensions," said IEA executive director Fatih Birol. Today, it is natural gas; tomorrow, it could be something else, such as lithium," he reflected.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2020

They include the rare earth elements and other metals such as lithium, indium, tellurium, gallium, and platinum group elements. However, retrieving and recycling these metals from used appliances is notoriously difficult, which is becoming an increasingly big issue for the UK and many other countries.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Some of these challenges, such as those around the cobalt used in lithium-ion batteries, are well known. Inadequate enforcement, corruption and a lack of political will to address these issues are key challenges facing these producing economies in tackling violations.

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GreenBiz

JULY 2, 2021

The Biden administration’s infrastructure plan, which continues to wind its way through the political process, includes billions of dollars for power grid investments and the creation of a new Grid Authority to oversee power infrastructure upgrades. Here are three priorities to ensure the grid is resilient as the climate gets chaotic. .

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2021

Political opponents branded the move as further evidence that a government with laissez faire instincts remained temperamentally opposed to proactive industrial strategy. Business groups lamented a "frustrating" and "harsh" decision.

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Green Market Oracle

JUNE 3, 2020

Politics and government Implementing broad spectrum electrification starts with government because without the public sector the private sector will not get onboard. Canada is also uniquely rich in battery manufacturing as its natural resources include all the required raw materials (lithium, graphite cobalt, aluminum etc).

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Clean Energy Trust

JANUARY 28, 2022

Gridlock is still a problem, but there is optimism as climate has risen in the US to become a top-tier political issue (as it is already in western Europe).

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

In a relatively short amount of time, this paradigm has been upended by the growth of affordable renewable energy, both utility-scale and distributed, that does not burn any fuel, and the political, regulatory, and corporate drive to cut emissions. This new era of power has only begun but is already quickly evolving.

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Business Green

JULY 31, 2020

It is technologically and economically feasible for us to achieve this - and the Supreme Court has now affirmed that there is no legal basis for a lack of political will," she added. The process, which relies on sea water and lithium as fuel, is carbon free and its only biproduct is helium, an inert, non-toxic gas.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

APRIL 20, 2021

They will shape the vision, secure funding and other ecosystem support for new ground-breaking programs, that might include such things as: Supporting inclusive innovation in battery supply chains in Southern California around the so-called Lithium Valley emerging at the Salton Sea. Preferred Qualifications & Skills Requirements.

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Business Green

JUNE 26, 2020

The industry sees great opportunities for minerals such as lithium, cobalt and copper in all forms of transport infrastructure, communications and energy systems.".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The ensuing rush for lithium, cobalt, nickel and other materials to feed the growing demand for battery cars has in led to pollution and environmental damage , as well as political disputes between mining prospectors and local populations and in some instances allegations of human rights abuses.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

The technologies and solutions required to combat the climate crisis are ready, available and increasingly affordable, the report notes, highlighting the drastic cost reductions seen in solar, wind, and lithium-ion battery production over the last decade or so. It is vital that they recognise the lessons it contains.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The DOE regulations broadly define a “government of a foreign country” to include: a national or subnational government of a foreign country; an agency or instrumentality of a national or subnational government of a foreign country; a dominant or ruling political party of a foreign country; and a current or former senior foreign political figure.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The lithium-ion cells burned out after seven years of daily cycling, so we turned our fire moat into the low reservoir for our residential pumped hydro system. Traveler: Why not switch to flow batteries when the lithium went bust? Daughter: How did the political leaders react? Micro-wind to capture some nighttime generation.

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Charged

MARCH 11, 2024

There’s much hand-wringing in the press these days about battery raw materials such as lithium, cobalt and nickel. Rare earths are used in nickel metal hydride batteries, but not really to a significant extent in lithium-ion batteries. Q&A with MP Materials’ Matt Sloustcher.

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